wind
noun
/waɪnd/
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/wɪnd/
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- (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- (philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
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άνεμος,
αέρας
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- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
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αέριο,
εκφύσημα
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- (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
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ανάσα
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- (music) A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
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φυσώ
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wind
verb
/waɪnd/
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/wɪnd/
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- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
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άνεμος,
αέρας,
φυσώ
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- (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
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αέριο,
εκφύσημα
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- (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
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ανάσα
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wind
verb
/waɪnd/
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- (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
- (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
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ελίσσομαι
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- (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
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κουρδίζω
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- (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
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περιελίσσω,
τυλίγω
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